Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 08:47:43 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, lenzi@bsi.com.br, brian@mediacity.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game Message-ID: <199612201647.IAA04872@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199612200737.XAA00619@superior.truenorth.org> from Josef Grosch at "Dec 19, 96 11:37:36 pm"
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According to Josef Grosch: > >On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Lenzi, Sergio wrote: > > > >> A Small banking company 1 central and 4 "sites" are all running SCO with > >> a cobol application based on mfcobol. > > > >COBOL...it never dies! :) > > Really. (I wonder what the `mf' in `mfcobol' stands for... .) > > The common wisdom has approximately 75% to 85% of all existing code is > written in COBOL. Most of it is 15 to 20 years old and in bad need of a > rewrite. Your checking account at your bank is maintained by a badly > documented, bug ridden, 20 year old cobol program running on an IBM > mainframe. Be afraid, be very afraid. > > [ DELETED ] > > Does anybody know if there are any translators available that can transform COBOL to another, more manageable language? FORTRAN, for example. Trying to de-kink the rats' nests of billions and billions [good bye, Carl] lines of COBOL is death. --This prob'ly belongs on the chat lists, but I'd be interested if there is such a translator. This list would probably know..... gary kline >
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